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Why I Switched from OpenAI to Alibaba's Qwen API on Tencent Cloud (Saved 80%)

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I've been building AI agents for the past three years, and my stack used to be pretty standard: OpenAI's API hosted on a Western VPS. But after the recent September 2026 pricing reset across China's LLM market, I decided to run an experiment. I migrated my core agent logic to Alibaba's Qwen API and…

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  1. 2026-09-15 23:28 · DEV Community — AI
    Why I Switched from OpenAI to Alibaba's Qwen API on Tencent Cloud (Saved 80%)

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